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Families In Limbo As Russia Considers Banning Adoptions To U.S.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (R) and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev arrive for the final Cabinet meeting of the year at the government headquarters in Moscow , on December 27, 2012. Putin told today a meeting of top officials in the Kremlin he intended to sign into law a bill banning Americans from adopting Russian children that has raised tensions between Moscow and Washington. AFP PHOTO / RIA-NOVOSTI /POOL/ DMITRY ASTAKHOV (Photo credit should read DMITRY ASTAKHOV/AFP/Getty Images)

Tye says about four dozen children who would have been matched with families all over America are being affected.

“And these families, they’ve jumped through all of the hoops. To get this far down the process and to be matched with a child and then have that process put on hold is so emotionally wrenching,” Tye says.

She is encouraging the Chicago area families — and others — to contact their senators and congressmen to ask them to urge Russia to let those adoptions already in progress to proceed.

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